Support for steam-pipes



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J. FINNEGAN.

SUPPORT FOR STEAM PIPES.

No. 324,929. Patented Aug. 25, 1885.

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Nirnn STATES PATENT OFFICEO JOHN FINNEGAN, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA.

SUPPORT FOR STEAM-PIPES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 324,929, dated August25, 1885 Application filed March 14, 1885.

'new and useful Improvements in Supports for Steam-Pipes; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings,which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a frontelevation, and Fig. a side elevation with supporting-bar in section.

My invention has relation to devices used as supports for pipes in steamheating apparatus, 85c; and my improvements have for their object toprovide aconstruction in which different sizes of supporting-bars may beused with one size of hanger.

My invention consists in the peculiar construction of the hanger-yoke,which is formed with slots for the reception of the supportingbar, andin the peculiar construction of the supportingbar, which has stops tosecure it in place in the hanger-yoke.

It further consists in the combination of the slotted hanger-yoke andthe supporting-bar, as hereinafter fully described.

teferring to the accompanying drawings, A designates the hanger, whichis a rod or pipe havingits upper end swiveled in a socketplate, B,designed to be fastened by means of screws to a ceiling or overheadfixture. On the lower end of the hanger is swiveled a yoke, 0,comprising a central boss, 0, and two curved depending arms, 0 c. Thisyoke rests upon a nut, a, fitted on the lower threaded end of thehanger, so that by turning said nut the yoke and the supportingbar maybe vertically adjusted. The arms of the yoke (N0 model.)

are slotted transversely, as shown at c c, for the reception of theSUPPOItlllg-bfil D. Said bar is formed on its upper edge with notches orseats d (I (Z d, which afford bearings or rests for the pipes 6 c, 850.,that require support, and it is recessed on its lower edge at (1,forming shoulders (1 61 which abut against the outer edges of the arms 0c and serve to hold the bar in position in the yoke.

Bars of varying lengths, and having a greater or less number of notchesor seats (1 (I, and these of dili'erent radii, may be employed, one barbeing slipped out of place and another of different length, &c.,substituted for it. This renders the device adjustable to differentsizes and numbers of pipes by a simple interchange of the supporting.

' ing slotted or mortised arms 0, and the sup- 1 porting-bar I),projecting through the slots 0 and formed with the pipe-seats d on itsupper edge and the shoulders d on its lower edge, substantially asdescribed.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this3d day of March, 1885.

JOHN FINNEGAN.

\Vitnesses JOHN URIAN, \VILL l1. POWELL.

